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Poem by Walt Whitman


Leaves of Grass. 21. Drum-Taps. 22. Long, Too Long America


Long, too long America,
Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and
      prosperity only,
But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing,
      grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,
And now to conceive and show to the world what your children
      en-masse really are,
(For who except myself has yet conceiv'd what your children en-masse
      really are?)



Walt Whitman


Walt Whitman's other poems:
  1. Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 28. Offerings
  2. Leaves of Grass. 32. From Noon to Starry Night. 19. What Best I See in Thee
  3. Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 31. Yonnondio
  4. Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 43. The Dying Veteran
  5. Leaves of Grass. 35. Good-Bye My Fancy. 25. “The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete”


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